Download or read book Fluxes of Atmospheric Methane Using Novel Instruments, Field Measurements, and Inverse Modeling written by Gregory Winn Santoni and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The atmospheric concentration of methane (CH4) - the most significant non-CO2 anthropogenic long-lived greenhouse gas - stabilized between 1999 and 2006 and then began to rise again. Explanations for this behavior differ but studies agree that more measurements and better modeling are needed to reliably explain the model-data discrepancies and predict future change. This dissertation focuses on measurements of CH4 and inverse modeling of atmospheric CH4 fluxes using field measurements at a variety of spatial scales.